Tales of the Parodyverse - A = pi R squared

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Subj: A = pi R squared
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 at 01:14:18 am EST (Viewed 4 times)

Reply Subj: That's only a theory.
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 at 12:03:39 am EST (Viewed 464 times)

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I think I remember them complaining how insanely expensive redoing Kirk's Enterprise bridge was, and how in the end they could only afford to do one half of the set.

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And they had to pay James Doohan, too.

Just his buffet table must have stretched the budget.

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Lara wouldn't really care if they were currently on wanted posters all over Paradopolis. The way she figures, if they aren't a clear and present danger, she'll let them be for the moment. That's what I meant by her not minding the grey area. Sometimes it's easier not to fight the tide, and to wait until it's in her favor.

Noted.

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It was hard to think of any offer that would credibly make him consider his loyalties, but this one probably does. When you consider the apalling options of mass murder vs multiversal genocide it becomes all too hard to shrug off the possibility.

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Chiaki is used to dealing with gangsters. Quite a lot of them have made an offer about cleaning up the streets, or fixing up a neighborhood, or providing for the poor. But she knows they never say that they'll do it by paving the roads with blood, and every dollar will be stained with it. And most of the time, they don't keep their word.

Grace made a similar point about "trusting the surgeon".

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That would make her very skeptical of the offer made to Vinnie. She would urge him to pay close attention to who benefits, who loses, and exactly how trustworthy the party is making the offer. Ask himself if it's more likely that they're doing all of this to neutralize any and all possible resistance so they can seize power for themselves. She would believe the answer to that is yes.

Also, Chiaki can somewhat sense the danger and power amassed against Vinnie, putting him in a damned-if-you-do, dead-if-you-don't situation.

The problem is, in that brief instant of decision, she doesn't have time to convey to Vinnie that one choice leads to both their destruction and maybe three or four thousand other instant casualties and that the other has massive far-reaching consequences. Their adversary knows what she can do and isn't about to allow her that opportuinity to interfere.